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Jan 11, 2021
Two new species of reef just got their official descriptions inaugurating them into the annals of reef fish taxonomy. Like so many recent damselfish,
Pomacentrus andamanensis was split off from a common and widespread species, the ambon damselfish, while the whiteline dwarfgoby
Eviota angustifascia is described from specimens newly recognized from Fiji and New Guinea.
The andaman damselfish joins a long list of tropical reef fish from the Andaman Sea, which is a region in the eastern Indian Ocean that is almost totally separated from the species-rich Indo-Pacific region by Thailand, Malaysia and parts of Indonesia.
Pomacentrus andamanesis is most closely related to the ambon damselfish, both of which have a prominent ocellus in the soft portions of the dorsal fin but whereas this spot shrinks and disappears with maturity in
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S D Pradhan has served as chairman of India s Joint Intelligence Committee. He has also been the country s deputy national security adviser. He was chairman of the Task Force on Intelligence Mechanism (2008-2010), which was constituted to review the functioning of the intelligence agencies. He has taught at the departments of defence studies and history at the Punjabi University, Patiala. He was also a visiting professor at the University of Illinois, US, in the department of arms control and disarmament studies. The ministry of defence had utilized his services for the preparation of official accounts of the 1971 war and the counterinsurgency operations in the northeast. In the JIC/National Security Council secretariat, he was closely involved with the preparation of the reports of the Kargil Review Committee and the Group of Ministers on national security